Pretty much everyone loves Donnington. A Beautiful flowing track with a bit of everything. Unfortunately it's 'Slippery When Wet'.....(But it IS England, in Spring, so there won't be any of that then, will there? )
Kind of the 'home' of WSBK too.
Here's some pix from the reopening of the track a cuppla years back.

Good to see so many brands in racing, Sykes got a raw deal at Yamaha (of course, being Ben Spies team mate didn't help). Donington was my favorite track on the old PS2 motogp game, the next fav. was Suzuka. (2000 version, with 2 strokes). I hate that Hopper always tries to over ride his bike, they guy is talented, last year I even was following BSB, Hope he can go through 1 season with no injuries on a good bike.
The championship is wide open at this point, once again, I'm rooting for the "old" guys (since Hopper is out of contention)- I'm good with either Biaggi or Checa.

Althea Racing riders Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano have faced an afternoon more difficult than yesterday, after a hard-fought Superpole, Checa was qualified in ninth position for tomorrow's races and Giugliano thirteenth.
Sunny skies but cool temperature (10° C 18° C air, asphalt) to Superbike qualifying this morning. Davide Giugliano continued to make good progress, constantly lowering made record time yesterday and set several laps under 1 ' 30. His best lap in this session it was six-tenths of a second faster than his best time of yesterday, and this time finished in eleventh position, qualifying comfortably for Superpole. Carlos Checa continued work yesterday, focusing his technical on finalizing its 1198. In the last minute of the session, Carlos did record a very fast (1 ' 28.9) who placed third. Only the first three  Checa, Sykes and Smrz  they filmed under the 1 ' 29.
Superpole 1  the first phase of the Superpole went well for Carlos who did a fastest lap time of 1 and ' 28.6 has placed third. By this time there was no need to get back on track and Carlos ended the mini-session in fifth position. David struggled to make a clean lap as he had done in previous sessions. As a result, his fastest lap time earned him the thirteenth place, off of just one-tenth of a second from Badovini, 12th.
Superpole 2  Checa and came out first with a qualification but, seeing that he would serve another exit, and is back on track with a cover. The times made record were not so low as hoped the Spanish rider who has finished in ninth position, at a fraction of a second by Camier, eighth.
Carlos Checa: ' we had tried the qualification at the start of the second phase but I decided to make the second exit with rubber. I thought that with the rubber would be possible to record a 1 ' 28. I tried until the end but it seemed that there was the same level of grip that there was this morning and then I failed to do it. It went well and tomorrow there will be need to leave very well. "
Davide Giugliano: "in the morning I went pretty well but in Superpole, with a race, I failed to put together a tour such as those facts earlier this morning. Perhaps I was a bit nervous, I don't know, but it's a shame because I finished off the second phase for only one-tenth of a second. We start tomorrow. Obviously not going to be easy because I start from the fourth row, but will certainly try my best ".
Time (Superpole): 1. Sykes (Kawasaki) 1 ' 27.7; 2. Haslam (BMW) 1 ' 27.8; 3. Melandri (BMW) 1 ' 28.1; 4. Biaggi (Aprilia) 1 ' 28.3; 5. Hayden (Ducati) 1 ' 28.4; 6. Rea (Honda) 1 ' 28.5; 7. Camier (Suzuki) 1 ' 28.5; 8. Jakub Smrz (Ducati) 1 ' 28.7; 9. Checa (Ducati) 1 ' 28.4 . 13. Giugliano (Ducati) 1 ' 29.2